For a long time, " Spherical Lightning " has been called the "Three-Body Profile" prequel by some three-body fans , but the actual connection between the two is not close to .
"Sphere Lightning" began with a teenager. In order to explore the truth that his parents were killed by spherical lightning when they were young, he devoted his life to studying the mystery of this mysterious natural phenomenon. Unfortunately, one day, this scientific research result was recruited by the military as the ultimate weapon to determine the life and death of the motherland.
There are many novel ideas in "Sphere Lightning". For the theme of , , it comes from the author himself who saw it in 1981 in a thunderstorm in Handan, Hebei. At that time, it was quite remote, and walking forward was a large area of farmland.
According to a paper in the domestic meteorological journal, the probability of ordinary people seeing spherical lightning is less than one percent. Liu Cixin was fortunate to witness this unexplainable scientific phenomenon and adhered to his usual most interesting and romantic style of , , and wrote the book "Sphere Lightning". The worldview in the book is set to as long as it captures the macro atoms visible to the naked eye in nature and makes it in an excited state, it can obtain spherical lightning used to fight crime.
When a person is hit by a spherical lightning, it is like Schrödinger's cat, before opening the lid, there will be two oppositional situations.
One is the original body burned to ashes, and the other is the body that becomes quantum state , just like the separation of the body and the soul . If this body is observed by other objects other than oneself, then the person quickly collapses into a scattered quantum disappears, leaving only ashes.
On the contrary, if quantum people only observe themselves with their own consciousness, they can maintain their quantum state and even obtain immortal . The heroine in the book, Major Lin Yun , became a quantum ghost in the macro atom nuclear fusion . After revealing his thoughts to General Lin Feng and Ding Yi , he could no longer maintain his own observation state, thus returning to the collapsed state and no longer entangled with the real world. This is why Lin Yun existed at the beginning and disappeared in the end.
"Three-Body" face-to-wall plan , face-to-wall man Taylor attempts to capture macro atoms in nature to create spherical lightning , thereby creating a fleet of quantum ghosts to have a head-on conflict with the three-Body invaders, because quantum people cannot be killed.
It is worth mentioning that since "Sphere Lightning" was not published abroad, it is afraid that foreign readers will understand the principle of it, so the foreign version of Taylor's plan was changed to the mosquito group plan. After some ETO ( Earth Trisomy Organization ) was included, they drove the mosquito group to surrender to the Trisomy Fleet and then launched a sneak attack.
After Taylor was broken, the concept of macro-atomic universe invented by Liu was no longer mentioned, and this is the only connection between "Sphere Lightning" and "Three-Body Problem" except for the character Ding Yi.
In terms of concept, "Sphere Lightning" is still a work that tends toward humanistic . It does not have the grand scenes triggered by various technological explosions in "The Three-Body Problem", nor does it have various imaginations about high latitudes, nor does it have the causal entanglement between humans and the Three-Body Problem people that span hundreds of years.
This book focuses on thinking about war and peace, and explores the opposition between survival and morality. Through its profound realistic style, magnificent science fiction imagination, and deep and rational patriotism, people can wander uncontrollably and can't stop. The background of the work
works took place during World War III. In the apocalyptic battle between China and the United States, countries were scrambling to develop " new concept weapon ". Every weapon revolution seemed to be able to reverse the direction of the war.
The clue character "Dr. Chen" from the story, after witnessing his parents being instantly turned into powder by ball lightning, he made up his mind to devote his whole life to the illusory ball lightning, until this "new concept weapon" was used as a tool of war.
The first article of the fictional cosmic sociological axiom in "The Three-Body Problem" is: Survival is the first need of civilization . This sentence is also applicable to the earth's society. It is just a different way of understanding, that is, survival is the first need of a race or a type of person, and triggers emotional resonance in the contradiction and conflict between morality and survival .
"Sphere Lightning" also starts with this. The protagonist Lin Yun is a female version of as cold as a mechanical one, and even a bit distorted in spirit, or , Beihai , who likes to appreciate others' despair, and is a paranoid personality , which can be advanced by any means for the purpose.
Because his mother died in the shadow of genetic bees in her early years, Lin Yun was crazy about weapons . In Vietnam War , the words of a female weapon expert from the former Soviet Union had a profound impact on her worldview. She said to Lin Yun:
"Those terrible weapons may one day fall on the heads of your compatriots and relatives and on the delicate skin of the baby in your arms. The best way to prevent this from happening is to create it before the enemy or potential enemy!"
, who was devoted to studying new concept weapons, came up with very devilish ideas when she saved a child hostage by an anti-science organization.
rebels hate technology, and they look forward to returning the earth to the pastoral era to avoid harm. The merciful executive chief's idea saved these children, but it would cause deaths in several cities, including children.
Lin Yun’s idea is to use ball lightning to destroy the child and the terrorists into powder. It is obvious that Lin Yun’s approach seems inhumane and unmoral, but for the human community, it is indisputable.
Just like the macronuclear fusion attack she finally launched, it disabled one-third of the semiconductor equipment in the motherland, allowing the United States to see the terribleness of macroatom weapons, formed a powerful deterrence, and calmed the war.
The same is true for Zhang Beihai and Vader in "Three-Body Problem". If the former does not assassinate several people in the aerospace industry, it will not be able to prompt the interstellar voyage spacecraft engine manufacturing to develop towards the direction of working fluid-free nuclear fusion engine, let alone his ultimate escape plan. The latter was developing antimatter spacecraft despite human opposition. Although he had to give up because of the "Holy Mother", his choice was not at fault. The light-speed spacecraft was the only hope for humans to escape the dimensional reduction strike.
You can say that they are extremely sinful, but you can never feel their cold love for mankind. Only history can witness their contributions. Only as readers can we understand their good intentions.
Most of Liu Cixin's books have a common feature: Kindness is always destroying humans, while demons are always saving humans . In the eyes of the world, Lin Yun, Zhang Beihai, Vide, and even Luo Ji are not only not grateful, but also condemned as the crime of extermination of the world. What is funny is that because of being too kind, the earth was destroyed by the once-in-command Cheng Xin , in the book, is like a Virgin and respected by mankind.
Liu Cixin said: "He is not despairing for human beings, so he describes such desperate stories. He just tries his best to create that environment so that he can create dramatic conflict ." But it is precisely because of these unspoken stories that we think calmly: morality is not only pale in front of survival , but also not worth mentioning. Although such a wonderful work as
is not as big as the scenes and imagination of "The Three-Body Problem", the book also shows the admirable "mini details in the macro world". Of course, such a relatively simple worldview will be easier to make a movie.
Recently, there have been news that Chen Sicheng will direct the movie "Sphere Lightning", which makes people look forward to it, but those who have always followed Liu Cixin's works will not forget that The difficult birth record of the film and television works of "Sphere Lightning" is no less than the of "Three-Body Problem".
In 2008, Zhang Xiaobei and producer Guan Yadi bought the right to adapt the movie and TV in "Sphere Lightning", but ended in vain.
In 2016, the news of the film version of "Sphere Lightning" was released by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and Liu Cixin personally served as the producer.
In the filing file, the summary given is:
Liu Ci witnessed his parents die in ball lightning and swore to solve the mystery. But after discovering its power, it was stolen by terrorists to kill adults around the world and return the earth to the agricultural era. My girlfriend Lin Yun died? Prohibit it yourself? The attack and unravel the truth of the ball lightning, allowing Liu Ci and his loved ones to meet again.
Unfortunately, "The Wandering Earth" launched in the same year was brought to the screen in 2018, triggering the boom in science fiction movies that year, and "Sphere Lightning" seemed to have evaporated.
2019, according to the June TV series filing and public announcement by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, "Sphere Lightning" was adapted and created by Shanghai Yingma Culture Communication Co., Ltd. for 42 episodes of TV.
By the end of 2020, when we heard that " Wandering Earth 2" will be released in 2023, there was no news about the TV series adaptation of the previous year, but we heard that the movie "Sphere Lightning" was launched again.
This time, it was directed by Chen Sicheng, Zhao Liying and Liu Haoran plays Lin Yun and Ding Yi. As soon as the official announcement came out, there was another uproar.
Some people question Chen Sicheng's skills, and some people affirm Chen Sicheng's strength. After all, he also directed a commercial blockbuster such as " Detective Chinatown ". " Chinatown Detective 3", which will be released during the Spring Festival in 2020, has also been postponed to the Spring Festival in 2021, if the epidemic no longer repeats itself.
But when you ask yourself, you are still full of worries. Science fiction is different from mainstream commercial action movies or urban romance works. Its requirements for logical details should be more rigorous and self-consistent.
How to keep this 300,000-word work, retain the original story settings, delete many details, and then build a new storyline that can be self-consistent, and finally make a high-cost, high-tech, and high-concept science fiction work. It is just the Chinese film industry, and it is definitely not something that can be accomplished with just work hard.
in particular cannot be ignored. Science fiction is a niche type. While takes into account the preferences of millions of Chinese science fiction fans, it also needs to take into account the tastes of most ordinary movie lovers . Otherwise, if the movie is shot poorly, the box office will not be optimistic, and the capital market will probably find it difficult to invest in works of the same type.
Although I hope this adaptation is not a rumor, if you are not prepared, don’t do it easily, otherwise it will cause a lot of scolding and it will be a loss of rice!
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